So, Who Came Up With the Alphabet?

The origin of the alphabet is more mysterious than you think.
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So, Who Came Up With the Alphabet?
The alphabet has been a work-in-progress going back as far as ancient Egypt. Not too much is known about these mysterious original scripts, except they're likely adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphs. But we still have no idea who wrote them...
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